Poison-indicator.



R. W. BUGBEE.

POISON INDICATOR.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 16, 913.

' Patented Mar. 31,1914.

RALPH W. BUGBEE, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

POISON-INDICATOR.

Application filed September 16, 1913.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 31, 1914.

Serial No. 790,110.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RALPH W. BUGBEE, citizen of the United States, residing at the city of St. Louis, State of Missouri, have invented new and useful Improvements in Poison-Indicators, of which the following is a specification.

his invention is an improved device for use on a bottle to indicate that the bottle contains poison and thereby prevent the administration of poison from the bottle by inadvertence or mistake, the object of the invention being to provide an improved device of this character which is effective either in daylight or darkness and which will apprise the user of the bottle of the nature of its contents by appealing to the senses of sight, hearing and touch,.the invention consisting in the construction, combination and arrangement of devices hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawing: Figure 1 in an elevation of a polson indicator conl structed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the same. Fig. 3 is a perspective view showing the same in use on the neck of a bottle. Fig. 4 is a sectional viewof the modification of my improved poison indicator.

In accordance with my invention I provide a tubular spiral band 1 which is here shown as made of spring wire and the ends of which are secured together as at 2. This band, which is elastic is adapted to be placed around the neck of a bottle or around a box or other container of poison or other noxious substance. The band when thus in use on a bottle or box is conspicuous, appeals to the sight as an indication of the nature of the contents of the box or bottle and also ap- Oopies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the peals to the touch as the fingers will necesa sarily come in contact with the band in picking up or handling the box or bottle and the coils of the band by their characteristic effect on the touch and indicate the nature of the contents of the box or bottle if the same be picked up in the darkness.

To also adapt the device to appeal tothe sense of hearing I provide the band with bells 3 which may be constructed in the form of small sleigh bells or may be otherwise constructed and which are permanently connected to the band. These bells may be globular in form and arranged in the bore of the band and adapted to roll loosely therein so as to admit sounds when the device is handled or may be of other form and hung or otherwise attached at intervals to the band.

In Fig. 2 the bells are shown as in the form of small globular bells each comprising a hollow body 4 and a rolling clapper or hammer 5 and in the modified form of the device shown in Fig. 5 the bells are indicated as of usual bell shaped body 6 provided with clappers 7 the body of the bells being attached to the band.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

A poison indicator of the class described comprising an elastic band, tubular in form and made of spirally arranged spring wire and globular bells mounted in the bore of the tubular band to roll therein.

In testimony whereof I, aiiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

RALPH WV. BU GBEE.

"Witnesses J osnrn KADLno, JOHN M. LUKAS.

Commissioner of Iatents,

Washington, D. C. 

